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Direct linkLong, Joseph J.; Butchart, Maggie; Brown, Michael; Bain, Janice; McMillan, Anne; Karatzias, Thanos – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: The research reported here sought to evaluate whether a dedicated education programme in vision awareness improved the knowledge and skills of autism support practitioners in identifying visual impairment in autistic people with intellectual disabilities and providing better support to those individuals identified as visually impaired.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Impairments, Vision
Peer reviewedKaplan, Melvin; Edelson, Stephen M.; Rimland, Bernard – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1999
Two studies of strabismus ("crossed eyes") in children with autism are reported. A clinical optometric evaluation of 34 individuals with autism, ages 7 to 19 years, found a strabismus rate of 50% and a parent survey of 7,640 families of children with autism found an incidence of 18% (compared to 2-4% in the general population). (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Children, Incidence
